WALKSAFE is an innovative program based here in South Florida. As a result of the WALKSAFE program there has been a reduction in traumatic brain injuries in children by 60% over the last 8 years. At present, the program is being emulated around the country, and bicycle advocates are partnering with them to start the [...]
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Crossing The Street Not Easy In Miami Springs
Retired police office Glenn Rice attempts to cross the street in downtown Miami Springs. Despite the pedestrian island, flashing lights, and signage and oh, the state law, Mr. Rice gets no love.
Heard On the Street: Biscayne Boulevard Is Embarrassing
Recently a reader sent the authors of Transit Miami a note of frustration, an excerpt of which is below.
I recently moved to NE 25th St. and Biscayne Boulevard. I am happy with the neighborhood as I think it is exciting what is going on throughout the whole area.
I am happy that the city [...]
Fat City?
According to this article in USA Today, Men’s Fitness has named Miami the fattest city in America.
Awesome.
Now, one must always take magazine and news media rankings with a grain of salt. The metrics used can vary wildly and often allow one to paint a city any number of desired shades. As an example, the Brookings [...]
Walkability Protest?
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
You may have heard that last Friday morning thousands of used sneakers were dumped along the Palmetto Expressway, delaying traffic for hours while crews were forced to clean up the kicks.
With no one stepping forth to claim the shoes and no signs of an accident, rumors are afloat that they were dispensed in [...]
How an Atlanta Family Slashed its Carbon Footprint and Gained a Life
The following article below is a reprint from NPR.org on April 1, 2008:
Atlanta Family Slashes Carbon Footprint
Atlanta resident Malaika Taylor used to live the typical suburban life — the kind that helps make America the world’s top contributor to climate change. But four years ago, fed up with commuting, Taylor and her 11-year old daughter, [...]
Churches Cater To Cars
Imagine a drive-thru church? It’s not far from reality. Last Christmas, I heard of a church that was having a drive-thru nativity scene. The ostensible reason was that people didn’t have to get out of their cars in cold weather. Some churches, however, like this one in Orlando, do it when they don’t have cold [...]
The Biscayne Wall Blunder
Speaking of curb cuts, I was passing along NE 2nd Avenue and was completely disgusted to experience firsthand the atrocities permitted to occur on the backside of the buildings facing Biscayne Bay. The term Biscayne wall is quite fitting as the backsides of these towers were clearly designed to resemble the blank slate of [...]
Stop Sign of Death?
I live next to a busy intersection in South Beach – Meridian Avenue and 13th Street. It’s the main entryway to Flamingo Park as well as the beach’s central avenue. It’s the only tree-shaded roadway around. Suffice to say, there’s a lot of traffic: cars, bikes and pedestrians.
Within the past few months, four-way stop signs [...]
The Grove’s Information Booths
From the Miami Today:
EYES ON THE STREET: Small black kiosks are popping up around Coconut Grove as part of a City of Miami pilot initiative to have more “eyes on the street,” Commissioner Marc Sarnoff said. He proposed the idea in May, calling for increased enforcement officer presence. The booths are to serve as bases [...]
Thursday Quote: 20th Century Paradox
“The paradox of transportation in the late 20th Century is that while it became possible to travel to the moon, it also became impossible, in many cases, to walk across the street.” [...]
The Anti Walk Score
First we brought you the incredibly useful Walk Score, a program geared to determining how navigable neighborhoods are for people…
Today I’d like to introduce Drive Score, the anti-walking, pro-sprawl, and guaranteed laziness application which uses incredibly flawed methods to create a map of vehicle accessible areas. One would think if you ranked poorly on [...]
Miami-Ft. Lauderale Ranks 8th in Walkability! Huh?
The good news is, a recently released Brookings Institution report claims that the number of walkable locales is growing in many metropolitan areas across the country. It’s great to see that people are rediscovering the kind of urbanism that allows high quality pedestrian environments to thrive.
However, the Brookings report itself has some major flaws. [...]
